Fruit-picker.



C. MANN.

Patented 001. 19, 1915.

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C. MANN.

I FRUIT PICKER. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 9. 1914.

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' and where plan view of Fig. 1, some may be made of any suitable material,

FRUIT-PICKER;

Be it known that I, COLIN residing at 'Southport, in the county of Lincoln and State of Maine,

have inventedv certain new and useful Im provements in Fruit-Pickers, of whichthe following is a specification.

' F ruits'which require the use of a picker are those which grow on the high branches,

and itis'difiicult to position the picker to "pick the fruit without injury to theone being picked and without disturbing those on the nearby branches. This f is especially true of pickers which have two.

jaws, one or both of which are movable. Again, the fruit generally hangs pendent the movable jaw moves upwardly it is very difiicult. to engage it so as to prevent injury to thefruit.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple fruit picker, designed to overcome these objections, to .be easily operable and to do the picking without in ury 'to the. fruit.

In the drawing herewith accompanying and making'a part of this application F igure 1 is a side'elevationiof my picker having about the inclination of the pole that it would have in actual use, being slightly inclined from the perpendicular; Fig. 2 is a i parts being omitted for clearness, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of'the fixed jaw showing a modified form of the fruit receptacle.

Same reference characters indicate like parts in the several figures.

In said drawing A is a pole to the end of which is rigidly attached a jaw .C whicgi pre erably of heavy wire. The method of attaching the fixed jaw. to the pole is not material, but preferably by means ofa tang B .made integral with the aw and inserted in the end of the pole. The fixed jaw is nearly at right anglesto the poleso as to be nearly horizontal when the picker is being used so that it may be raised'm horizontal position directly under the fruit afiording a large unobstructed entrance to the receptacle 1) attached to the under side thereof. The receptacle may be netted, as-

seen in Fig. 1. It may be made of'a combinetted portion being uppermost as shown in Fig. 2. The reason for the combination MANN, a sub-- to the pole,

. handle end position such that the fixed so aamemmay 1 a p 7 Patented Oct. 19,1915. Application filed December 9,1914. Serial No. 876,373. I I

View 0f the fruit being picked while the I fabric part is much less liable to become entangled in the branches.

In connection with the fixed jaw is a mov? able Q I as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1.

This jaw a cross bar pivotally' secured at or near the j pole .end of the fixed jaw." The movable."

65, l j is automatically retracted by a coil spr ng F, one end of which is attached as seen at G, and the other tov Hon themovable jaw. The movable jaw isoperatedby means ofa cord 7ft I attached one end to'the outer end'of the I jaw. and the other extending'down tothe of the pole. To give long easy movement to the-coil spring, itismade to bear upon. a curved extension'J: forming a part of a ferrule K'secured to the endof 'Ihe mov'able jaw is normally raised as in the position shown in Fig. 1. The picker as a whole is usually raisedin an inclined horizontally under the fruit. The movable .j aw is then drawn down upon the fruit and continued until the fruit is-forced from the branch which then falls'into the receptacle,"

operation: of my picker is as followsi the pole. The-backward movement of the limited by a stationary post 7 be formed or secured to the j jaw will come the action of the movable jaw being that of v pressure only,

ioned to-further lessen the liability of injury to the fruit by the pressure of the movable jaw thereupon. .l

I claim: a

1. In a-fruit picker, a-pole, a long horseattached to one end of.

shoe-shaped fixed jaw said pole, a horseshoe-shaped jaw of smaller the movable jaw being cush size pivotallyattached to" said fixed .jaw-

and adapted to cooperatetherewith, saidT'.

movable jaw having a crossbar intermediateits'ends, a receptacle attached to said; V 1 fixed jaw, a retracting coil spring connected; one end to the pole andthe other endto said cross bar? and means for forcing the movable jaw beyond the fixed jaw, whereby cutting the stem.

- 2. In afrultpicker, a pole, secured to the pole, a. movable j v the fruit is forced from the branch without nation of net D and solid fabric D the with said fixed jaw,

a ferrule with a verti- Cally curved extension attached to the end of the pole and a coil spring having one end attached to the end of the pole at a point spaced apart from the end thereof and the other end attached adapted to extend'over said extension.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for to the movable jaw and five cent Washington, D. 0.

COLIN MANN.

Witnesses:

JAMES B. PERKINS, CHAS. J. MARR.

5 each, by addressing the Commissioner of Yatents, 

